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“Tribal Eclipse”

Plus or Minus Two compiles four songs from Kansas City wave pioneers Short-Term Memory’s first cassette album, Every Head Needs Cleaning, with two previously unreleased tracks recorded in the 90s. This EP focuses on the group’s prescient dance-floor DIN-sync workouts which share sensibilities with contemporaneous early Detroit experiments by Juan Atkin’s Cybotron, Ron Hardy’s visionary Kikrokos tape edit, Shoc Corridor’s extended 808 exercises, and 90s Techno Pop by Haruomi Hosono. Rounding off the EP is the existential electronic soul ballad Words. Remastered from the original reels, 45rpm DMM pressing.

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DIRK DESAEVER - COLLECTED 1984 - 1989 (LONG PLAY)

Musique Pour La Danse is thrilled to present its latest “Collected” anthology, the label’s most ambitious release since it released an extensive anthology of music produced by New Beat pioneer Ro Maron back in 2015.

This time label managers Olivier Ducret (Muriaux, CH) and Ed Isar (Paris, FR) have focused on another essential Belgian producer: Dirk Desaever, the man behind White House White, A Thunder Orchestra and Danton’s Voice. Rare and sought after, his records fetch high prices among collectors. Some of his productions under these aliases have appeared in crucial compilations such The Sound of Belgium series as well as Walhalla’s Underground Wave, along with edits by Mick Wills for Biorythm and Marcel Dettman for Dekmantel.

What was initially supposed to be a simple reissue affair soon turned into a much wider project, as Desaever shared heaps of amazing unreleased material with the label. It seemed much more interesting to shed light on the dark side of this producer’s body of work, rather than to focus on content already reissued elsewhere.

After listening to noisy tape rips over and over, Ducret & Isar opted to break this release down in three formats (EP, LP distributed via NEWS and a cassette sold by the label direct), each one with different content. They entrusted sound engineer Lorenzo Targhetta with remastering the music and it’s impressive how much he managed to polish the sound without altering the unmistakable grain of music committed to cassette tape.

MPD015 Dirk Desaever - LP
The pièce de résistance of Collected 1984 - 1989, all the music on this LP has never been heard before, except for a single tune released on a rare 7” in 1988. The track selection and sequence is the result of Ducret & Isar closely listening to the many hours of unreleased material Desaever shared with them.

The record can be approached as an imaginary album or even the soundtrack of a lost film or TV show. The idea was to tell a story about Desaever’s music by highlighting its themes and variations. While some tunes can be imagined within a New Beat context, it’s clear they were not created with clubs in mind. In fact, most of the material here is actually closer to minimal wave, synth wave and dark wave. With a certain gothic melancholia as the common thread running through the record, some tracks can only be described as lofi library music with a strong medieval reminiscence, others are closer to the wave aesthetic, and finally a few could even be considered ambient.

Desaever’s house holds many rooms, each one different from the other. After completing a grand tour of the mansion and seeing the bigger picture, it will become clear for listeners how truly unique this producer sounds, even compared with other Belgians from the 80s. Saved from oblivion and irremediable decay, the music on this LP is now just waiting to be played and listened as well as to inspire.

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Dirk Desaever - Collected 1984 - 1989 (LP Trailer)[Musique Pour La Danse ]

Reissues "Results, Not Answers" out on Bureau B on April 26th, 2019! Available here:
CD/LP: https://shop.tapeterecords.com/records/bureaub/young-scientist-results-not-answers.html
DL: https://youngscientist.bandcamp.com/album/results-not-answers?label=1760336028&tab=music

When you think of the music to have emerged from Seattle, grunge and Sub Pop are probably the first things that come to mind. But Seattle was already home to a vibrant alternative music scene back in the 1970s. One of the most prominent synthesizer acts of the period was the trio Young Scientist. Influenced by the likes of Cluster, Harmonia and Tangerine Dream, they released their music exclusively on cassette. We are delighted to present their superb debut album from 1979, the hypnotic-meditative-cyclical "Results Not Answers" on CD and vinyl for the very first time!

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Young Scientist – Music For Feet

Luc Bersier, Low Bat, Leonard Prochazka and Ariel Garcia collaborate on an overtly atmospheric, drugged-up trip through some Nevadan inferno.

'Des litres d'essence' is out June 14th on Knekelhuis.

Pre-order: bit.ly/2EGjPYu

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Premiere: Jean-Luc – Inspiration [Knekelhuis]

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Sebastian Melmoth - The Dynamics Of Vanity
Artificial Dance 2019
AD008

Since forming in 2006 post-punk experimentalists Sebastian Melmoth have been on a thoughtful and adventurous musical journey. In a constant state of aural evolution, the London-based four-piece has a delivered a string of albums and EPs that variously touch on everything from garage-rock, grunge and lo-fi pop, to electro, new wave, dark ambient and music concrete, all the while drawing on a myriad of literary and artistic influences.

The band’s first release for Artificial Dance digs deep into their admirable and eye-opening catalogue and draws together some of the Amsterdam-based label’s favourites from the more electronic end of the band’s output. Entitled “The Dynamics of Vanity” – a comment on Western culture’s obsession with rehashing the past and the band’s own in-built distrust of artistic naval-gazing – the set is not a ‘best of’ retrospective but rather a ‘sort of’ selection of stylistically interconnected cuts that gives a very specific snapshot of the band’s work.

Check for example “Icarus”, a drowsy, hypnotic and sample-laden soundscape that effortlessly joins the dots between post-rock, pitched-down electronica and early morning ambient, or the slowly unfurling throb of thought-provoking opener “The Engineering of Consent”, a swelling, melancholic post-jazz meditation on propaganda and governmental mind control featuring spoken word samples from William S Burroughs in conversation with Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine and Robert Anton Wilson. 

The showcased songs are typically hard-to-pin-down, too, with the re-imagined gothic horror break-up cut “Prosopagnosia’ and slow-burn audio addition of “Waiting For Godot” being joined by the wide-eyed morning dream-pop hallucinations of “Seeds (Descent Into Decadence)”.  It all adds up to a collection that expertly showcases one engaging thread – of many – running through Sebastian Melmoth’s esoteric body of work.

https://artificialdance.bandcamp.com/album/sebastian-melmoth-the-dynamics-of-vanity-ad008

Sebastian Melmoth - The Dynamics Of Vanity (AD008)

Ovu trensi pikanteriju smo čuvali za kraj godine kao božićni poklon za sve naše ljubitelje. LVRIN je ruski producent i dj, čija se muzika pojavila na izdanjima kao što su Pinkman, Phormix, Juno Records, Arma, Sign Bit Zero, Crimes of the future, Lux rec. Muziku stvara na analognim spravama, i takodje ih koristi za svoje live nastupe. U Januaru mu  izlazi još jedan mini LP za Pinkman.

We kept this spicy trance treat for the end of the year as a Christmas present for all our followers. LVRIN is a Russian producer and DJ whose music has appeared on Pinkman, Phormix, Juno Records, Arma, Sign Bit Zero, Crimes of the Future, Lux rec. He creates music on analogue devices and also uses them for his live performances. Another mini LP comes out in January on Pinkman.

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LVRIN - Dubine Podcast #013

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Lontano Da Dove? by DsorDNE is a four-track LP written and recorded between 1996 and 1999  - at Acqualuce studio in Alpignano, Torino -  by the mind of Marco Milanesio and Luciano Gelormino. Additional guitars were provided by Danilo Beltrame on PIANO ZEROQUATTRO (Extended) and vocals by Snowdonia founder Cinzia La Fauci.

It was conceived to be released at the time but only a few promo copies were distributed.  After about 20 years, the original recordings, which were considered lost, were found by Marco, who remastered them in his O.F.F studio and brought it back to life.

The all album is an organic work, who mash spoken ethereal voices and dubby basslines with tr-909 beats, borrowing elements from trip hop, techno and industrial.

Recorded and mixed in ACQUALUCE STUDIO Alpignano between 1996 and 1999 
Mastering in O.F.F. STUDIO Torino 2020
Artwork Enea Bortone

Lontano Da Dove?

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